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PERFORMANCE WORK

BECOMING MY NONBINARY BODY: NOTES FROM INSIDE THE COCOON (2023)

A 3 hour performance on the imaginative power of the body, dreaming of a future that might be, but is still out of reach. A critique on the 3 year waiting-list for gender-affirming health-care, while also being a celebration of queer identities and slow becoming. 

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The body is wrapped in a see-through cocoon, and suspended in silk, like a caterpillar on it's journey of becoming a butterfly. Inside the cocoon the most important action is imagination of the future, as a driving force of the transformative process. These imaginations are shared with the audience through large-scale projections on and around the body of the performer. Holding space for each persons individual imaginations in the gaps and slowness of the projected images. 

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Image: Vicky Maier

BECOMING MY NONBINARY BODY (2) (2023)

A 3 hour performance of stillness and transformation as an invitation to reflect on how society teaches ut so perceive a body, or to slowly move through it.

 

The body is slowed down, almost brought to a stop, while the dreamed bodies continue to take shape, projected on the walls of the old church. The artist whispers, in a stream of conscious, their thoughts, doubts, questions and emotions that emerge while waiting for medical transition into their nonbinary body.

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Image: Vicky Maier

TRANSITION TEMPORALITY (2022)

A mixed media performance on hair and shaving, combining video- and live-elements. A result of a year of research into the nonbinary identity and transition. Searching, again and again, for places and moments of joy, beauty and community in an individuals transition into a nonbinary identity and expression. An intimate and poetic attempt to capture and combine personal moments in time, from a past, a present and a future.

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Image: Vicky Maier

BECOMING MY NONBINARY BODY (2022)

A 2,5 hour slow motion performance as an invitation to question societies prescribed perception of a body. In physically challenging the body to be very slow for two hours, time and space are created to observe both the body and your thoughts. Not creating images of a body at war, in a struggle, in pain, or discomfort, but actively searching for fun, joy, pleasure, liberation.

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Image: Steef Kersbergen

THE UTOPIAS WE LOST (2021)

An attempt of conjuring lost dreams/memories/utopia/euphoria through body movement, conversation and imagination. Working with collected childhood memories from the three performers of moments of both gender-euphoria and the (scary) realization of not being able to fulfill the expectations of ones gender.

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Image: Mike Witjes

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